How does a wilderness photographer get close to a polar bear, a leopard seal, and other dangerous Arctic predators? We’ll spend this hour with National Geographic’s Paul Nicklen, who is in town for the Brinker International Forum lecture series tonight at 8 p.m. at the AT&T Performing Arts Center. For more information, go to www.attpac.org.
What revelations are contained in the files of MI5, the deeply mysterious security and intelligence agency that has protected Great Britain for the past 100 years? We’ll talk to Britain’s leading historian of intelligence, Christopher Andrew, a professor of Modern and Contemporary History at Cambridge University and author of the new book, “Defend the Realm: […]
As the number of homeless North Texans rises under a struggling economy, what can local communities do to help shelter their most vulnerable citizens? We’ll spend this hour with Mike Faenza, president and chief executive officer of Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, and Otis Thornton, Homelessness Coordinator for the City of Fort Worth.
Does being cool, in effect, mean you are actually not cool at all? We’ll discuss the irony of today’s post-cool society with noted jazz critic and music historian Ted Gioia, whose new book is “The Birth (and Death) of the Cool” (Speck Press, 2009).
Is it possible to build a robot that looks, thinks, and responds like a human being? We’ll spend this hour with robotics designer David Hanson, who develops “intelligent” robots with realistic facial expressions and conversational abilities from his laboratory in Richardson, Texas.
Do the concurrent crises of the economy, climate change, and global food supply provide an opportunity to change the way we think? We’ll find the advantages in valuing people, places, and animals regardless of their economic worth with Raj Patel, author of the new book “The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and […]
